Mimosa Echard Explained

Mimosa Echard is a French visual artist who lives and works in Paris. 

Biography

Born in 1986 in Alès, France,[1] [2]  She grew up with her sisters in a hippy community in the Cévennes.[3] She studied at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris, from which she graduated in 2010.[1]

In 2019, she was a resident at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto.[4] Since 2021, she has been the head of a painting workshop at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Echard is the winner of the 2022 edition of the Marcel Duchamp Prize.[1]

She is represented by the galleries Chantal Crousel (Paris) and Martina Simeti (Milan).[1]

Work

Echard's artistic research explores the boundaries between nature and pop culture. Thanks to a multidisciplinary practice that ranges from painting, to sculpture, to video and digital,[5] she creates fictional worlds with psychedelic traits through the accumulation and assemblage of objects, images as well as botanical references from the Cévennes (her native region), a region with a long history of counter-cultural and community experiments initiated in the 1970s.[6]

Collaboration is important in reading her work: ”Collaborations are always a way of creating collective events and experiences outside of the validation system of art and institutions”.[7] One example is the "open-source experimental exploration game" proposed by Echard as part of her exhibition at Palais de Tokyo in 2022, accessible only online. Designed in collaboration with a software developer, musicians and actors, the “scenario imagines an engaging and humorous approach to interspecies relations”.[8]

Her work has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, including Sporal, at Palais de Tokyo in 2022, or Sluggy Me at the Collection Lambert, in Avignon in 2021,[1] but also in various galleries including the Samy Abraham gallery in Paris[9]

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Awards and selections

Residencies

Collections

Her works are part of public and private collections including: the Pompidou Center,[20] the Louis Vuitton Foundation,[21] the Paris Museum of Modern Art,[22] the National Centre of Plastic Arts in Paris, the Corporate Foundation of the Lafayette Galleries in France,[23] the Ettore Fico Museum[24] in Turin, Italy; and the Samdani Art Foundation, in Dhaka, Bangladesh[25]

Notes and references

Bibliography

Press

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2022/10/17/mimosa-echard-laureate-du-22e-prix-marcel-duchamp_6146196_3246.htm Emmanuelle Jardonnet, Mimosa Echard, lauréate du 22e prix Marcel Duchamp, Le Monde, 17 October 2022
  2. Web site: Duponchelle, Découvrez les finalistes du Prix Marcel Duchamp 2022, Le Figaro, 12 January 2022.
  3. Web site: Vignal, Mimosa Échard, l'artiste qui efface les genres. Marie Claire. 24 September 2021.
  4. https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2021/08/06/ca-palpite-d-une-vie-qui-n-est-plus-l-art-du-vivant-de-la-plasticienne-mimosa-echard_6090767_4500055.html Roxana Azimi|day, Ça palpite d’une vie qui n’est plus: l’art du vivant de la plasticienne Mimosa Echard, Le Monde, 6 August 2021
  5. Pip Walls, Immanence et eau vive, Sporal, Les Presses du réel, 2022 (French/English), p.49
  6. Web site: Aubin, Horn of Plenty: Mimosa Echard, Mousse Magazine, 73, 2020.
  7. À ma seule cellule. Entretiens entre Mimosa Echard et Daria de Beauvais, Sporal, Les Presses du réel, 2022 (French/English), p.89
  8. Web site: Reviews – Artforum International. www.artforum.com.
  9. https://www.lemonde.fr/arts/article/2017/11/24/selection-galeries-daisuke-ichiba-et-mimosa-echard_5220020_1655012.html Philippe Dagen, Sélection galeries : Daisuke Ichiba et Mimosa Echard, Le Monde, 24 November 2017
  10. Web site: AD, Mimosa Echard: la prima personale in Italia dell’artista francese, 2020.
  11. Web site: Mimosa Echard "Numbs" at Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris — Mousse Magazine and Publishing. April 2, 2021. www.moussemagazine.it.
  12. Web site: MIMOSA ECHARD - "SLUGGY ME". July 9, 2021.
  13. Web site: Palais de Tokyo, Echard, Sporal, 2022.
  14. Web site: Le Quotidien De L'Art, Saâdane Afif et la Galerie Mehdi Chouakri remportent le 8e Prix Meurice pour l’art contemporain, 2015.
  15. Web site: BFSP, Mimosa Echard, 2018.
  16. Web site: Comune di Torino, Report Annuale 2021, 2022, p.82.
  17. Web site: ARTISSIMA 2021: Premio FPT for Sustainable Art, Premio Ettore e Ines Fico & Premio Xiaomi HyperCharge Award. November 7, 2021.
  18. Web site: Lafayette Anticipations, Mimosa Echard, 2022.
  19. Web site: Villa Albertine, Mimosa Echard, 2022.
  20. https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/ressources/personne/cnA4eeb Centre Pompidou, Mimosa Echard, 2022
  21. Web site: Announcements - e-flux. www.e-flux.com.
  22. Web site: de Tokyo, Mimosa Echard, 2022.
  23. Web site: Anticipations, Mimosa Echard, 2022.
  24. Web site: I dieci premi di Artissima. Il Giornale dell'arte.
  25. Web site: How They Put Bangladesh on the Global Art Map. Larry's List.

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